We are the leading companies engaged in offering services for refrigerated & non-refrigerated warehouse and cold chain industry. Our expertise lies in offering customers solutions both in the field of engineering and project management.

Established in the year 2010, at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, we “ Stratum ” are one of the leading companies engaged in offering service solutions for Refrigerated & Non-refrigerated warehouse and Cold Chain Industry. Our expertise lies in offering customers compatible solutions both in the refrigeration and Project management as per the specific process requirements of our customers.

The solutions offered by us include design, planning ensuring timely execution of the project, Assisting clients during commercial negotiation, Proper reporting methods to clients, Conducting regular coordination meeting with all the vendors and Project management. Other than this, we also offer services for Project planning, Identifying suitable contractors and suppliers, Project estimation and Complete design of refrigerated and non-refrigerated warehouse.

Our business operations are led by Mr. Sivakumar Nair, who is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering and competent professional. He has with him over 17 years of experience in areas of Project management, Designing, Executing, Commissioning and Team management in Refrigeration as well as Cold chain industry. His visionary approach backed with expertise in conducting end-to-end program planning & implementation from scope management, activity sequencing as well as cost estimation to quality management in adherence to guidelines and norms also makes us better adaptable in mapping client’s requirements as well as meeting the solutions with optimized costs.

Today, we work with a dedicated, experienced and committed approach to offer compatible & out-of-the box solutions for the Cold chain and Refrigeration industry. Our expertise lies in providing our customers better deliverables through valued professional expertise, service clients with due diligence and accomplish tasks within agreed time line by adapting scientific methods in project planning and execution. Other than this, we also partner clients with committed professionalism and support clients with cost effective business solutions. We also better adapt to good project management techniques into cold chain sector with good and modern technical skills that helps us in delivering exceptional end solutions.

Fact Sheet

Company Details

Year of Establishment

2010

Legal Status of Firm

Sole Proprietorship (Individual)

Nature of Business

Service Provider

Our Mission

Service client with due diligence

Accomplish task within agreed time line by adapting scientific methods in project planning and execution

Partner client with committed professionalism

Support client with cost effective business solutions

To adapt good project management techniques into the cold chain sector with good and modern technical skills

Our Vision

To be the most preferred cold chain and refrigeration project consultant with cost effective business solutions under professional reporting standards.

Objectives

To identify client’s needs and custom build our services

To ensure cost effective and quality proven deliverables

To develop network spanning nationally to work on pan-India basis

To give continuous technical and day to day operational support even after project completion

Cold Chains

A cold chain is temperature-controlled supply chain that offers uninterrupted series of storage & distribution activities that maintains a given temperature range. It is also used to help as well as ensure shelf life of products like Fresh agricultural produce, frozen food, chemicals, pharmaceutical drugs and others. The use of cold chains is also common in Food and Pharmaceutical industries as well as some chemical shipments. We also hold expertise in providing concepts & designs for plants & packages and install the equipment to conditions at construction sites & issue drawings and specifications.

Why The Requirement?

India ranks first in world in production of fruits & second in vegetables that accounts roughly 10 and 15 per cent, respectively of total global production. India also has strong & dynamic food processing sector that plays vital role in diversifying agricultural sector, improving value addition opportunities as well as in creating surplus food for agro-food products.

But nearly one third of horticultural produce, especially fruits & vegetables are wasted on account of poor cold storage & other storage facilities. The wastage of fruits & vegetables is also due to poor post-harvest management as well as lack of cold chain facilities have is estimated to cost up to Rs 500 billion annually.

Government Initiatives

Government also provides incentives to build cold-storage facilities, cut food wastage as well as smooth supply chain in world's second biggest producer of fruits and vegetables. With view to ensure faster development of cold storage capacity as well as to encourage entrepreneurs to invest more in this sector, government has announced new credit-linked capital subsidy scheme for construction of cold storage and godowns.

This scheme is implemented by NABARD/NCDC/NHB where National Horticulture Board provides capital subsidy to entrepreneurs for construction, expansion as well as modernization of cold storage for horticulture products. This scheme also promotes setting up of cold storage in country for reducing post harvest losses.

A subsidy of 25% of the project cost subject to maximum of Rs.50 lakh per project can be availed under this scheme

For projects in the North Eastern States, maximum subsidy admissible is Rs.60 lakh @ 33.33% of project costs

These government schemes will help in attracting new investments in the sector. This move is also good decision for agriculture sector that is struggling with food wastage problems. With present limited Cold storage facilities, the focus is on recent upcoming budget on bringing more investments in the warehousing and cold storage sector.

Services We Offer

Backed by rich industry experience, our consistent service standards has helped us to successfully emerge as the most preferred cold chain and refrigeration project consultants and service providers. Here, our expertise lies in providing cost effective business solutions under professional reporting standards through identifying client’s needs and custom build our services. Other than this, we also ensure cost effective and quality proven deliverable by developing network spanning nationally to work on pan-India basis, which in turn allow us to give continuous technical as well as day to day operational support even after project completion.

The solutions offered by us include:

Complete design of refrigerated and non-refrigerated warehouse

Project estimation

Identifying suitable contractors and suppliers

Integrated project planning

Reducing project cost and improve the quality by avoiding total single contract and giving orders to specialists

Scientific methods to project management

Proper reporting methods to clients

Conducting regular coordination meeting with all the vendors

Preparation of tenders or enquiries with techno-commercial terms and conditions

Bringing technical clarity with vendors

Assisting clients during commercial negotiation

Ensuring timely execution of the project

Proper hand over of the project to the operation team

Other Functional Areas

Apart from this, we also offer other solutions for the Refrigerated & Non-refrigerated warehouse and Cold Chain Industry includingoffering customers compatible solutions in other functional areas both in the Engineering and Project management.

Our consistent service approach as well as in-depth industry knowledge has helped us to emerge as a leading company in the field of Refrigerated & Non-refrigerated warehouse and Cold Chain Industry. Other than this, our expertise in offering cost competitive solutions in the field of Engineering and Project management has also helped us to emerge favourite service providers in our industry sector.